Thursday, December 06, 2012

Roast chicken at the French end of Manhattan Ave

Found out about this place through a friend who was invited to their tasting session on the social media site. As much as I would have wished, I was not invited but anyway I love roast chicken so went there to try their food.

However when I got there, I did not realise they didnt have any dining tables so I just got the dessert because I like to eat freshly roasted chicken immediately when it tastes the best.

It would be good though if they had wooden bench tables outside for al-fresco dining because that road is a dead end anyway so there will be no vehicles but people.

Next to La Rotisserie is another French joint which sells baguettes called Chez Meli Melo, I hope that this place will have a positive impact on it and will become a French street, and perhaps La Creperie should move here too!

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The Chocolate cake topped with guerande salt: The chocolate cake is not as heavy and sickly as it looks.
It is similar to a brownie and the cocoa taste is extremely strong and not cloyingly sweet.
There was not much guerande salt on my cake, but it still tasted nice.
The texture was interesting, it was really soft and crumbles in your mouth into smooth velvety paste.
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Roast chicken As well as the chicken here I have still got to try Chicken on the run too!
It would be interesting to see how these two compare and I wonder when Nando's will open a branch in Hong Kong too.
Anyway the chicken here is fabulous, it was full of flavour and herbs.
The chicken texture was natrual too.The chickens are rubbed with herbs and their secret spices before they are put on the rotisserie! Be sure to reserve your chicken as they are sold chicking fast! ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Roast potatoes The roast potatoes are baked beneath the chickens in the Rotisseries so when the juice from the chicken drops, it falls directly on the potatoes. The potatoes tasted FANTASTIQUE!!!
However they were slightly too salty. ★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
I will be back for the quiches and the above.

All you can eat @ Jiang Shan Xiao

I found out about this place because of this review of a Lobster claw lunch set for takeaways but since then they have not done the lobster again for lunch!
Hopefully it will be back on the menu one day so I can try it.
They did have sea cucumber for lunch but it didn’t look as good as the lobster.

It used to be difficult locating this restaurant but now LabConcept is here and it located at the other end of LabConcept near The Frank.

Basically they have an all you can eat offer for lunch and dinner, but for lunch they prefer you to arrive earlier as they stop taking orders at a certain time.

The all you can eat menu is available online and in English too so you can check it out and they also have their weekly lunch sets as well online.

There is a wide selection of soups, starters, mains and desserts.

Items I tried as copied exactly from the menu:
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Stewed chicken feet in abalone sauce: The sauce was nice and strong, however the texture of the chicken feet were not soft enough.
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Braised chicken in wine sauce & shallot roll served with home made mustard sauce: This was my favourite because the chicken had been soaked heavily in the wine and mustard sauce.
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Chilled cucumber with garlic sauce: This was quite nice because the cucumbers were fresh and there was lots of garlic.
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Steamed pork soup dumpling: These tasted how it should but the skin was slightly thick.
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Steamed glutinous rice dumpling in lotus leaf wrapping: The rice was too soft
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Noodles with minced meat in spicy soup: This was too spicy
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Almond tea with egg-white: I do not like almond puddings but this was surprisingly delicious.
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Chilled marinated black fungus with wasabi sauce: this was my favourite, the black fungas was really delicious with wasabi sauce.
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Sweet & sour pork with pineapple: this tasted as good as the sweet and sour pork in UK.
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